Let Love bring everyone— Tibetans and Chinese— to a better place

BY ROSALIE E. DUNBAR, NEWS EDITOR

In March, Tibetan protests against perceived human rights abuses by the Chinese government initiated a period of unrest in Tibet. It swiftly spread to other areas, and then coalesced around the journey of the Olympic torch as it traveled the globe on its way to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

In response to the potential for dangerous confrontations, the Sentinel asked several Christian Scientists in different parts of the world to describe how they're praying about the situation in Tibet and the protests there and elsewhere.

CHOEPHEL , a former Tibetan monk who escaped to India five years ago, recently remarked, "We want peace, but I see what's happening to our people over there, and I think maybe there is no choice [but to fight]" (see The Christian Science Monitor, April 1, "Young Tibetans question path of nonviolence"). His words made a deep impression on Christine Whitney, whose studies have taken her to the Mustang region of Nepal, where she lived among both Nepali and Tibetan people. This comment caused her to ask, "Have we hit a wall? Is violence really the only remaining resort?"

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